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Authority in Education - OENPP421
Title: Authority in Education
Guaranteed by: Katedra pedagogiky (41-KPG)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2021
Semester: both
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: 2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
can be fulfilled in the future
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: prof. PaedDr. Stanislav Bendl, Ph.D.
Class: Předměty v angličtině - mgr.
Interchangeability : OENPP1421
Annotation -
Last update: BENDL/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (06.10.2010)
Annotation: The subject helps students to learn about the problem of authority in context of social science. It analyses the concept of authority and interconnects it with closely related concepts. It deals with the form, diversity, development and exercise of authority in different environments, especially in the school environment. It tries to answer the question of how an educator develops and gains authority and on the contrary the reasons of losing it. The subject also focuses on the questions of the methodology of studying authority.
Aim of the course -
Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (10.05.2010)

Subject aim:

The aim of this subject is to make students aware of the question of authority within pedagogical context, to teach them how to analyse pedagogical situations from the point of view of the issues of authority and to search together with them for possibilities how teachers can work with authority in the school environment.

Literature -
Last update: BENDL/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (06.10.2010)

Literature:

ARUM, R. Judging School Discipline. The Crisis of Moral Authority. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2005.

BANTOCK, G.H. Freedom and Authority in Education. A Criticism of Modern Cultural and Educational Assumptions. London : Faber & Faber, 1952.

KYRIACOU, CH. Essential Teaching Skills. 3rd ed. Cheltenham, U.K. : Nelson Thornes, 2007. (chapter or part about authority)

PACE, J.L., HEMMINGS, A. (ed.) Classroom Authority: theory, research and practice. New Jersey, 2006.

PETTY, G. Teaching Today. A Practical Guide. 4th ed. Cheltenham, U.K. : Nelson Thornes, 2009. (chapter or part about authority)

RICH, J. M. Discipline and Authority in School and Family. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1982.

SADKER, M. P., SADKER, D. M. Teachers, Schools and Society. New York. McGraw-Hill, 1991. (chapter or part about authority)

Syllabus -
Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (10.05.2010)

Syllabus:

authority and closely related concepts,
the definition, basis and types of authority,
authority from the point of view of ontogenetic development,
the contemporary relativisation of authority,
the functions of authority in society and in school,
characteristics that contribute to the development of the authority of a teacher,
how can a school purposefully manage authority,
research methods used in the study of authority.

 
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